North Korean Troops Deserting Ukraine Frontline Days After Arrival
The troops were deployed in Russia's Kursk and Bryansk oblasts, about four miles from the border with Ukraine, when they deserted, the public broadcasting company of Ukraine, Suspilne, reported.
Intelligence officials cited by the broadcaster said the Russian military is searching for the North Korean soldiers, while commanders are trying to conceal the desertion from their higher-ups.
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The troops were deployed in Russia's Kursk and Bryansk oblasts, about four miles from the border with Ukraine, when they deserted, the public broadcasting company of Ukraine, Suspilne, reported.
Intelligence officials cited by the broadcaster said the Russian military is searching for the North Korean soldiers, while commanders are trying to conceal the desertion from their higher-ups.
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00:00Hello and welcome back to Cobra Post breaking news.
00:03Russia's army is forming a unit of some 3,000 North Koreans, a Ukrainian military intelligence
00:09source has told the BBC.
00:11In the latest report suggesting that Pyongyang is forming a close military alliance with
00:15the Kremlin so far, the BBC has yet to see any sign of such a large unit being formed
00:20in Russia's Far East.
00:22And Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has dismissed reports of North Korean involvement.
00:28This is not only British intelligence, it is also American intelligence.
00:33They report it all the time, they don't provide any evidence," he said.
00:37There is no doubt Moscow and Pyongyang have deepened their levels of cooperation in recent
00:42months.
00:43North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent Vladimir Putin a birthday message only last week calling
00:48him his closest comrade.
00:51Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken of North Korea joining the war, and South Korea's
00:56defence minister said this month that the chance of a North Korean deployment in Ukraine
01:00was highly likely.
01:02The biggest question mark is over the numbers involved.
01:05A military source in Russia's Far East confirmed to BBC Russian that a number of North Koreans
01:11have arrived, and were, stationed in one of the military bases near Ashurysk, to the north
01:18of Vladivostok.
01:19But the source refused to give a precise number, other than that they were absolutely nowhere
01:24near 3-0-0-0.
01:27Military experts have told us they doubt Russian army units can successfully incorporate North
01:32Korean soldiers in their thousands.
01:34It wasn't even that easy to include hundreds of Russian prisoners at first, and all those
01:39guys spoke Russian, one analyst, who is in Russia so didn't want to be named, told the
01:44BBC.
01:45Even if they did number 3,000 it would not be big in a battlefield sense, but the US
01:51is as concerned as Ukraine.
01:53It would mark a significant increase in their relationship, said US State Department spokesman
01:58Matthew Miller, who saw it as a new level of desperation by Russia, amid battlefield
02:04losses.
02:05It was back in June that Vladimir Putin toasted a peaceful and defensive pact with Kim Jong-un.
02:11And there is mounting evidence that North Korea is supplying Russia with ammunition,
02:15as recently demonstrated by the recovery of a missile in Ukraine's Poltava region 9 fact.
02:20Reports of mines and shells supplied by Pyongyang date back to December 2023 in telegram chats
02:26involving Russia's military communities.
02:29Russian soldiers, stationed in Ukraine, have often complained about the standard of ammunition
02:34and that dozens of soldiers have been wounded.
02:37Kiev suspects that a unit of North Korean soldiers is preparing in the Ulan-Ude region
02:42close to the Mongolian border ahead of deployment to Russia's Kursk province, where Ukrainian
02:47forces launched an incursion back in August.
02:50They could guard some sections of the Russian-Ukrainian border, which would free Russian units for
02:55fighting elsewhere, said Valery Ryabik, editor of the Ukrainian publication Defense Express.
03:02North Korea may have some 1.28 million active soldiers but its army has no recent experience
03:07of combat operations, unlike Russia's military.
03:12Pyongyang has pursued the old Soviet model in its armed forces but it is unclear how
03:16its main force of motorized infantry units might fit into the war in Ukraine.
03:20Then there is the obvious language barrier and an unfamiliarity with Russian systems
03:25that would complicate any fighting roles.
03:28That does not preclude North Korea's military taking part in Russia's, full-scale war in
03:33Ukraine, but they are most recognized by experts for their engineering and construction abilities,
03:39not for fighting.